Its top priority will be to commission the offshore Salman Khuff gas project in the next few weeks and complete a second pipeline to Bandar Assaluyeh to give Iran the option of either 
exporting Salman gas to the 
United Arab Emirates or import it for domestic use, Mostafa Khoee, managing director of the group’s Dana Oil unit told 
Upstream.

The $110 million purchase of Pedco, for which a cash payment of $25 million had been made 
in mid-2009 before the Iran 
Privatisation Organisation announced it was reviewing its 
decision because of protests by Pedco managing director Ali 
Beheshtian and others, was 
ratified by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last week.

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